February 27
2004
- It must be so humiliating to have such a public break-up. ~ Ellen DeGeneres to Justin Timberlake
- selected by IP 172.152.255.195
2005
- The writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man's proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit — for gallantry in defeat — for courage, compassion and love. In the endless war against weakness and despair, these are the bright rally-flags of hope and of emulation. I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man, has no dedication nor any membership in literature. ~ John Steinbeck (born 27 February 1902)
- selected by Kalki
2006
- Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
"Life is but an empty dream!"
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (born 27 February 1807)- selected by Kalki
2007
- Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time.Footprints, that perhaps another,
Sailing o'er life's solemn main,
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
Seeing, shall take heart again.Let us, then, be up and doing.
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
- proposed by Kalki
2008
- The heights by great men reached and kept
Were not attained by sudden flight,
But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling upward in the night.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~- proposed by Kalki
2009
- Turn, turn, my wheel! All things must change
To something new, to something strange;
Nothing that is can pause or stay;
The moon will wax, the moon will wane,
The mist and cloud will turn to rain,
The rain to mist and cloud again,
To-morrow be to-day.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~- proposed by Kalki
2010
Suggestions
In this sign, conquer. ~ Dream statement to Constantine I (born this day)- 3 Kalki 18:54, 24 February 2007 (UTC) Though I might prefer to use this on 28 October the date of the Battle of Milvian Bridge before which Constantine is said to have had his vision and dream. We also don't have a page on him yet, and I will probably create one by then. A more familiar and poetic but less precise variant translation of the Greek and Latin renderings is : "In this sign you shall conquer."
- 3 InvisibleSun 21:57, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 22:54, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
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It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world. ~ John Steinbeck
- 3 Kalki 18:55, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 21:57, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
- 2 Zarbon 22:54, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
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Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
- 3 Kalki 18:54, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 21:57, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 22:54, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
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If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- 3 Kalki 22:03, 26 February 2009 (UTC) with strong lean to a 4.
- 3 InvisibleSun 23:17, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
- 4 although would have given this a 5 if that were possible. - Zarbon 05:54, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
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Every great poem is in itself limited by necessity, — but in its suggestions unlimited and infinite. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- 3 Kalki 22:03, 26 February 2009 (UTC) with strong lean to a 4.
- 3 InvisibleSun 23:17, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
- 2 Zarbon 05:54, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
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